Lewis Fry Richardson was an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist, born in 1881 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He pioneered modern mathematical techniques of weather forecasting and applied similar techniques to the study of the causes of wars and how to prevent them. He is also noted for pioneering work on fractals and for a method for solving a system of linear equations known as modified Richardson iteration. His career joined numerical calculation with questions from meteorology and the social sciences, and his name is attached to several ideas in applied mathematics.
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11 October 1881
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He attended Newcastle Preparatory School where his favourite subject was the study of Euclid .
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